Since the year 1790, roughly 45,000 meteorite strikes were documented. The data indicates that 52 of them weighed more than 1 metric ton (1000 kg), the weight of a small car. In the map below, we color these heavy strikes in red. The data was compiled by NASA. The map was created using Python and […]

Ever since I saw Amanda Cox’s 2008 connected scatter plot, “Oil’s roller coaster ride“, I wanted to make one myself. This year Steve Haroz, Robert Kosara, and Steven L. Franconeri wrote a paper discussing the readability and reader engagement for connected scatter plots. They found that connected scatter plots, despite their novelty, engage the reader’s […]

Gender measurements: “Mostly male” is > 60% male. “Mostly female” is >60% female. “Gender parity” both genders are above 40%. The data comes from the file recent_grads.csv which can be found on the FiveThirtyEight.com github site.